CAT SX - First photos

[Wraggy]

not sure if i like it? think im with you on this lee , just looks all very messy in there and all the open gears/pulleys and belts !!!! are you not just asking for trouble ??

[MiniGaz]

anyone else actually noticed the amount of undertray trimming that is needed to fit the lipo in. check the front edge of the tray by the lipo and servo. you may have also noticed that it' looks like 2 different protos, and not just 1 that has been converted.

[RogerM]

I have to praise Schumacher for thinking well outside the box. If people shoot down a company for doing anything out of the ordinary then the sport won't move forward and we'll end up driving the same car ..... just with different logos on (hold on .... aren't we nearly there already???)

Weight distribution looks good, layout probably looks worse than it actually is in those pics ..... I bet it looks much easier to work on with the cells out!!!

Good on Schumacher for being different .... and proving to the world that we are still the most inovative and, well excentric (sp?) country in the world!!!

[Richard Lowe]

I'm still trying to figure out how you are supposed to plug the batteries in on the NiMh car...

Does the link wire run from the back cell of the 4 on the inside of the car to the front cell of the 2 cells, again toward the middle of the car? If it does do you have to thread the 2 cells under all the topdeck and elastic bands to take them out the left side of the car?!

[DCM]

well, they have done what I thought they would of needed to do to get the motor to rotate the same way as the wheels, but, I dunno, looks like one of Mad Mike Bartons creations from years ago.

Also, for 'production' cars, I hope the two idler gears are not nylon from RW, or at least one is hard coated alloy..... otherwsie be bye bye teeth on a bad run.

Otherwise, hmmmmm

[vader]

I thought meccano went out in the 80's

[Alfonzo]

Boy, what the hell would you know about the '80's ??

I like it. Looks radical, and totally different. And that's a good thing.

[GRIFF55]

Looks good, and different from the norm. Good luck shuey!!

[bert digler]

Originally Posted by GRIFF55

Looks good, and different from the norm. Good luck shuey!!

what an abortion

[elvo]

Originally Posted by Richard Lowe

I'm still trying to figure out how you are supposed to plug the batteries in on the NiMh car...

Very carefully!!



Well the weight is in the right place, and the motor spins the right way... ... at the cost of some complexity.

Can't see what the motor is mounted to though Hope there's some sort of 3rd bulkhead down there.


So Schum boys, what's with this variable ratio? Do you switch the white pulleys around?

[stegger]

Really don't like it to much to go wrong and to clutted, as Mr lowe said it looks to much of a fiddle with the cells. Lipo cell layout looks a lot better though. When you consider the cars from Aero and the forthcoming S500 from serpent they look far more user friendly. But saying all that good on schuie for coming out with something different.

[Cruise]

Originally Posted by elvo

Can't see what the motor is mounted to though Hope there's some sort of 3rd bulkhead down there.

Unique clamp motor mount to fine tune weight distribution, and allow motor changes without affecting gear mesh.

That what I was trying to say with: I could explain the reason for the holes but then your brain will explode(the holes in the undertray).

Cruise

[Richard Lowe]

Originally Posted by Cruise

Unique clamp motor mount to fine tune weight distribution, and allow motor changes without affecting gear mesh.

That what I was trying to say with: I could explain the reason for the holes but then your brain will explode(the holes in the undertray).

Cruise

/Is confused

[telboy]

How can you make a motor change without effecting gear mesh? Surely the pinion comes out with the motor?
To remove the motor I would think that you've got to loosen the cam mount?

[MattW]

yeah, pinion comes out with motor - as in on the end of the shaft. However, motor mount doesn't move, so you can put motor back in, and clamp it down and it will still be meshed.

[Lee]

[quote=stegger;105702]Really don't like it quote]


Fantastic, first one to say it

[Lindsay]

I have it on fairly good authority that the CAT will be running at Worksop this Sunday

[DCM]

so you slide the motor mount or you have a rotating mount like on the TC4 stylee..... so you can pull the motor and the mounting position is stable....

i.e. the motor attaches to a plate with fixed holes, then you use the plate to rotate/slide to alter mesh.... oh boy, this car gets more complex by the minute...

[telboy]

Ah, I think I see now Matt.
Any chance of a more closer pickie of it?
I understand what your saying but pics would make it clearer to people.?

[MattW]

The only pics i have are the ones that are posted on the site, so i'm afraid i can't help you with that one. In fact, it's an area that we have had no problems with - certainly when i've tested, so if i'm honest, i can't fully describe it in intimate detail, cos i haven't looked that closely at it!! It's just had an SP 5.5 motor in, and it hasn't ben touched in any way!!